they — English to French

How English they is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 5 translations with example sentences.

What it means: they in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: they (809 169), theys (13). By style: everyday 13 035 · literary 589 · biblical 4 963 · parliamentary 95 585 · legal and administrative 84 808 · UN documents 610 202.

ils

Used about 348 864 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 8 418 · literary ≈ 405 · biblical ≈ 3 515 · parliamentary ≈ 40 712 · legal and administrative ≈ 40 637 · UN documents ≈ 255 175).

• They are both good.

  Ils sont tous deux bons.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #325744 #1410445

• They ascended to the first floor.

  Ils montèrent au premier.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 23610

• but they shouted, saying, “Crucify! Crucify him!”

  Et ils crièrent: Crucifie, crucifie-le!

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 23:21

• They explicitly support it.

  Ils le soutiennent explicitement.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 698666

• They shall inform the Commission of any such measures.

  Ils informent la Commission de toute mesure dans ce sens.

  DGT-TM v2021 · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 1461633

elles

Used about 123 857 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 358 · literary ≈ 37 · biblical ≈ 103 · parliamentary ≈ 17 701 · legal and administrative ≈ 15 902 · UN documents ≈ 88 757).

• They are very big.

  Elles sont très grandes.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #37779 #3652129

• But they travelled at a very rapid rate.

  Elles allaient, du reste, fort vite.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 5368

• He opened the rock, and waters gushed out. They ran as a river in the dry places.

  Il ouvrit le rocher, et des eaux coulèrent; Elles se répandirent comme un fleuve dans les lieux arides.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PSA 105:41

• We hope that they will be incorporated by the Commission.

  Nous espérons qu'elles seront reprises par la Commission.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1090223

• They must be reasonably firm and characteristic of the variety.

  Elles doivent être suffisamment fermes et présenter les caractéristiques de la variété.

  DGT-TM v2021 · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 4923770

ont

Used about 66 153 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 629 · biblical ≈ 207 · parliamentary ≈ 5 310 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 534 · UN documents ≈ 55 473).

• Have they spotted you?

  T'ont-elles repérée ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #3731924 #3848657

• Because Ephraim has multiplied altars for sinning, they became for him altars for sinning.

  Éphraïm a multiplié les autels pour pécher, Et ces autels l’ont fait tomber dans le péché.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · HOS 8:11

• In the event of flight cancellations, passengers have the right to know when they are entitled to compensation and when they are not.

  Les passagers ont le droit de savoir dans quels cas l'annulation d'un vol donne droit ou non à une indemnisation.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 480456

• the customs authorities have informed the declarant that they intend to examine the goods;

  soit ont informé le déclarant de leur intention de procéder à un examen des marchandises;

  DGT-TM v2021 · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 1541769

• Those cynical attacks have nothing to do with this debate and they undermine its professional nature.

  Ces attaques cyniques n ' ont rien à voir avec le présent débat et nuisent à son caractère professionnel.

  United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 23779411

sont

Used about 52 742 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 086 · biblical ≈ 207 · parliamentary ≈ 1 770 · legal and administrative ≈ 5 301 · UN documents ≈ 44 378).

• They're the ones who want to go.

  Ce sont ceux qui veulent y aller.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #8873787 #2163652

• They are seven kings. Five have fallen, the one is, and the other has not yet come. When he comes, he must continue a little while.

  Ce sont aussi sept rois: cinq sont tombés, un existe, l’autre n’est pas encore venu, et quand il sera venu, il doit rester peu de temps.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · REV 17:10

• They are dealt with extremely well in the rapporteur's proposal, but also in an amendment by Mrs Breyer, which I recognise from the work on the Cosmetics Directive.

  Ces questions sont fort bien développées dans la proposition de la rapporteure et dans un amendement soumis par Mme Breyer, que je reconnais pour son travail sur la directive "cosmétiques".

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1237214

• As a rule, refund applications must be processed within the three months following the date on which they were lodged together with the necessary supporting documents.

  Les demandes sont traitées, en principe, dans un délai de trois mois à compter du dépôt de la demande de remboursement accompagnée des justificatifs nécessaires.

  DGT-TM v2021 · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 330068

• They are the ones who take the decisions, and we just have to carry them out.

  Ce sont eux qui décident et nous nous contentons d ' exécuter leurs ordres.

  United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 4235791

leurs

Used about 16 398 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 1 770 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 534 · UN documents ≈ 11 095).

• Many firms which do this well take great care over how they treat their workers.

  Très souvent, les entreprises qui obtiennent de bons résultats sont celles qui veillent avec la plus grande attention à la qualité de leurs relations avec leurs travailleurs.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1980145

• Proposals set out details of planned work, who will carry them out, and how much they will cost.

  Les propositions présentent en détail les travaux prévus, les responsables de leur réalisation, et leurs coûts.

  DGT-TM v2021 · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 2236669

• (b) They must not compromise the fair exercise of their public duties;

  Ne doivent pas compromettre le bon exercice de leurs fonctions publiques;

  United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 9038736

• identifiable, whether by their nature or by the relative proportions in which they are present, as being complementary one to another.

  reconnaissables, de par leur nature ou leurs quantités respectives, comme complémentaires les uns des autres.

  DGT-TM v2021 · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 4388999

More sentences

Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out.

• If someone dies, they should be buried.

  Si quelqu'un meurt, il devrait être enterré.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Miktsoanit and menaud · checked, community translation · #12319610 #12319626

• They showed us all their family photos.

  On nous a montré toutes les photos de famille.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and felix63 · checked, community translation · #10718923 #11380932

• For the stuff they had was sufficient to do all the work, and too much.

  Les objets préparés suffisaient, et au-delà, pour tous les ouvrages à faire.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EXO 36:7

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